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Big Fish in Little Pond 5% of world’s food fish in 1970

50% in 2013

Consumer of 80%+ of world’s fish oil

Huge ecological footprint: “Robbing Pedro to Pay Paul”

Bigger & bigger farms: “Super-Size Salmon Farming”

Waste emissions = 50,000 people

Five Fundamental Flaws Wastes - “solution to pollution is not dilution”

Escapes - “genetic pollution” and “extinction vortex”

Diseases – sea lice, ISA, Piscine Reovirus etc

Chemicals – toxic “marine pollutants”

FEED/FOOD – depleted and contaminated

Salmon Farming Kills Wild Fish

L'élevage du saumon tue

les poissons sauvages

Death by a Thousand Lice!